An estimated 160 million Americans are either obese or overweight. Nearly 75% of men and over 60% of women are obese or overweight. Nearly 30% of children, under 20, are obese or overweight in the United States.

Clearly, there is a weight epidemic in this country. Weight loss has become an important factor in maintaining or restoring health, warding off many diseases, and helping to ensure a long and healthy life. Clinical hypnosis can help with weight loss by changing attitudes toward food, changing lifestyle and behavior, increasing exercise, and eliminating unhealthy eating habits.

Unfortunately, overweight and obese individuals think that the easy and quick solution to their weight problems is to resort to weight loss pills which are, in most cases, expensive and dangerous to their health. The unique aspect of clinical hypnosis for weight loss is that it is completely safe and risk free.

Clinical hypnosis results in greater weight loss with benefits of hypnosis increasing over time and has been shown to be an effective way to lose weight.

Smoking causes 400,000 premature deaths in the U.S. annually. Potential loss of life is 13.2 years for male smokers and 14.5 years for female smokers. 50% of people who continue to smoke will die from smoking.

Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in our society. Smoking risks include: high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder(COPD), cancer, heart arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AFib), etc.

Dr. Mulhausen's success rate with smokers is 90% (9 out of 10 people), after one session, risk free. Physicians, on the other hand, prescribe patches, lozenges, gum and various medications (with serious side effects of seizures, hallucinations, and even suicide) and achieve a success rate of only 5-7%. Using hypnosis, a person can not only stop smoking, but also feel great, because there are no side effects. Clinical hypnosis is 3 times as effective as the nicotine patch and 15 times more effective than willpower alone.

Fears are not necessarily bad. They can be highly valuable if they serve useful purposes. But when a fear causes alteration of a normal lifestyle; creating intense and irrational behaviors, becoming a threat to a person’s well-being, it merits attention. Frequent occurance is a strong warning signal that needs to be heeded.

Depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 % of the U.S. population 18 and older. Major depressive disorder is more prevalent in women than men. As many as 1 in 33 children and 1 in 8 adolescents have clinical depression. About 6 million people are affected by late life depression, but only 10% ever receive treatment.

Symptoms of depression include: Apathy, hopelessness, sadness, loss of interest, insomnia, fatigue, irritability, lack of concentration, weight gain or loss, loss of appetite, social isolation, etc. Causes of depression include: health conditions, chronic or terminal illness, trauma, grief, stressful events, medications, drug or alcohol abuse, loneliness, loss of a loved one, divorce, etc.

Clinical hypnosis can lessen, or eliminate, depression in a safe, quick, powerful way that is both risk free and free of the many side effects of medications for depression. Clinical hypnosis is also cost effective versus the expense of short, or long term, depression medications.

In 2015, 15.1 million adults ages 18 and older had alcohol use disorder. This includes 9.8 million men and 5.3 million women. In 2015, an estimated 623,00 adolescents, ages 12-17 had alcohol use disorder. An estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third preventable cause of death in the United States. In 2010, alcohol misuse cost the United States $249 billion. More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems, according to a 2012 study.
Hypnotherapy has been shown to be an effective and significant tool in the treatment of substance abuse, and many people have benefited from it in years past. Over the past 20 years, hypnotherapy has gained ground in proving itself to be a legitimate, and many times a necessary inclusion in the treatment of certain addictions such as alcohol and drug abuse.